Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres

Acquired six months ago from Caroline Penman by the online selling platform 2Covet, the long-established and highly regarded 'Chelsea Antiques Fair' returns to its spiritual home of Chelsea Town Hall next month for its 70th edition.

As Brighton Racecourse is still being used as a vaccination centre, Love Fairs’ Donny Mann did a bit of lateral thinking about his antiques and vintage fair due to be held there on Sunday, August 29.

Updates from two events taking place in the south of England.

Uncertainty still affects fairs but antiques centres are benefiting from extra visitors

Updates from four events taking place around the UK

Contemporary Art Fairs’ schedule of live events in 2021-22 involves three racecourse locations in southern England: at Sandown Park in Surrey, and the Royal Windsor plus Newbury in Berkshire.

Norfolk event is eagerly awaited by enthusiastic customers starved of fairs open to public

Shropshire is a fertile county for antiques centres and shops.

Organisers prepare for events in Worcestershire and Shropshire including new fairs.

The duo pictured fist-bumping right were at the Classic Car Boot Sale in King’s Cross, central London, in 2019.

Man down. Prone and looking as if he had fainted on parade, this model of a guardsman is being carted unceremoniously away from the South of England Showground at last month’s IACF Ardingly.

“I’m expecting a 50-50 split from the exhibitors who follow my fairs and dealers local to the area”, said Nick Bayliss, talking about his new annual Festival of Antiques at Cheltenham Racecourse.

Portobello and Golborne Markets are now running on Sundays as well as the Saturdays throughout the summer until August 11.

Despite a last minute move to a new site, the Henley Décor Fair at the end of May was a big success, said organiser Gary Wallis.

The planned 30-stand Designer and Makers’ Fair on July 17-18 at Charleston Manor, near Lewes in East Sussex was cancelled at the beginning of July.

Lewes is well known to antiques and vintage-hunters.

Three updates about events taking place in Hungerford, Charlwood and the East End of London

After much trepidation around the launch of her monthly outdoor brocante in Dorking, Jane Alexander of Dovehouse Fine Antiques Fairs finally saw it happen on Sunday, June 20.

Former Edinburgh Woollen Mill turned into antiques market with more than 40 dealers

One of the longest-running niche markets in London has reopened post-lockdown and trader numbers are rising slowly, says Bridget Pettecrew, organiser of the Charing Cross Collectors’ Market in the arches below Charing Cross Station in London.